Download Kodi 16.0 Beta 4

The fourth beta release of Kodi version 16.0 has come out. This cross platform media center software is developed for Windows, OS X, Linux, Android and iOS. Version 16.0 includes the switch from DirectX 9 to 11, support for 4:3 Non-linear Stretch has been added and Kodi appearance settings are now stored separately and no longer together with the other system settings. Furthermore, functions can now also be assigned to remotes when a button is long-pressed and improvements have been made to the add-on manager. The changelog for beta 4 can be found below.

Kodi 16.0 beta 4 – Jarvis is getting ready #4
With this announcement we are releasing beta 4. Why the rapid succession of these releases you might wonder? By doing more releases in the shorter period we reduce the amount of changes that are included in each one. Instead of a huge list of changes it now only has several which gives a better overview. The advantage of that is possible regressions get picked up way faster and that you as user also get the benefit of not having to wait a long time to get these fixes.

This Release Early Release Often (RERO) is what we as a team have decided to go forward with as we see the benefits of this approach. Our developers don’t have to wait a very long time before their features get included in a release and you a user will also get to try them out without having to wait many months. Enough about the RERO approach as we’ll soon devote a special review about this.

Fixes done in this beta 4:

• Several credentials leaking in the debug log
• Fix enabled status for audio DSP add-ons
• Stop scraping album overriding tags when override tags Disabled
• Custom Music Node/Playlist Rule Based Queries
• Input.Select for PVR fullscreen windows with JSON-RPC
• Ghost timers in EPG window
• Sidemenu now playing buttons in Confluence
• Mouse handling regression on Android
• Don’t use cached results for dir checks in our Python API
• Missing header label on clean EPG progress dialog
• [configure] make sure the top kodi src dir is always in INCLUDES